Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served as Gowon's bodyguard, about it. Garba, who later broadcast the first announcement of the revolt over Nigerian radio, denied all. Nonetheless, Gowon reportedly told him: "If you are plotting, let it be on your conscience and let it be without bloodshed. I must go to Kampala anyway." Whether apocryphal or not, the story reflected the singular lack of personal ambition that had marked Gowon's leadership since power was virtually thrust upon him nine years ago. It also reflected the diffident style of leadership that had thwarted his attempts to deal with an interlocking...
...prehistoric ruins that the art department enthusiastically ran up on the Fox back lot. Moreover, Director Sidney Lanfield was careful to keep his fog machines rolling, never permitting the sun to rise on this peculiar corner of the British Empire. The result, for viewers of a certain age anyway, is a sort of double-edged nostalgia: not merely for two beloved characterizations but for a whole vanished style of moviemaking, in which menacing shadows lay over every scene and divinely dumb people blandly insisted that the peculiar howl they heard must have been the wind or the call...
...Editor Ralph Lewis reports that the only response so far has been a few chuckles. Author Allen doubts that his "Embezzler's Guide" will trigger any sudden increase in crime. Says he: "The people who are in a position to do this know what needs to be done anyway." But he admits that he would "feel bad if somebody got caught embezzling as a result of something he read in the article." Adds Allen: "Naturally, I'd feel worse if he weren't caught...
...Anyway, it goes on and on in like manner, to the point that one can only conclude the Millus should be locked up or sold to the Chilean government as a consultant on South Korean methods of crowd control. Instead, Millus is signed as screenwriter for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypee New, a big blockbusting statement on Vietnam, with massacres, heroin addiction, the whole thing. What could be the only fictional film about the indochina War (we exclude The Green Berels, which was so outrageous that French students would systematically take to the streets whenever it opened in a given...
Well, it is all academic, since most of the words-in any language-cannot be heard over the orchestra anyway. That seems to be more a problem of bad interpretation than anything else. At last week's Das Rheingold in Seattle, recognizable English phrases-"Help me, sister" (Freia), "Back to the mines" (Alberich), "What, yield my ring?" (Wotan) -were few and far between. But by Die Walkure, diction and audience comprehension had picked up considerably. How does the composer himself feel? Almost everyone who has ever gone on record about the matter, including Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, speaks desperately...